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Volume 35 , Issue 5
September/October 2015
Pages 601-611

A Standardized Approach for the Early Restorative Phase After Esthetic Crown-Lengthening Surgery

Giovanni Zucchelli, DDS, PhD/Claudio Mazzotti, DDS, MSc/Carlo Monaco, DDS, PhD, MSc

PMID: 26357690
DOI: 10.11607/prd.2444

The aim of the present case series article was to provide a standardized approach for the early restorative phase after a crown-lengthening surgical procedure. Different advantages can be ascribed to this approach: the clinician can prepare a definitive prosthetic finishing line in the supragingival location; the early postsurgical temporization allows the conditioning of soft tissues, especially the interdental papillae, during their maximum growing phase; and the clinician can choose the time for the definitive prosthetic rehabilitation in a patient-specific manner according to the individual potential and duration of the soft tissue rebound. In this study, this standardized approach was applied to the treatment of two esthetic cases requiring crown-lengthening procedures.

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